Updated August 23, 2023 by the ABC11 Data Team

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Homicides
Last 12 months
50
 Through August 19

Average Homicides
2020 to 2022
44

Per year

Homicide Rate
Last 12 months
17.5

Per 100,000 people

Average Homicide Rate
2020 to 2022
15.4

Per 100,000 people


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending up 0% compared to 2022, according to the latest data available from the Durham Police Department.

However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is up 14% compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city averaged 4 homicides a month over the last year. In 2019, that number was 3 per month.

One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was 13.3 per 100,000 residents. During the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Durham has risen to about the same risk of being killed in a fatal traffic crash and it’s now higher than the risk of dying of the flu or pneumonia in North Carolina.



The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC11’s data team looked at the Durham Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through August 19, 2023.

A closer look at homicides by police district

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.

You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.